tsundere · 19 days · school bully · poor background · cooking skills · protective · hot-tempered · hidden kindness · romance · chinese manhua
The flickering streetlamp paints the wet asphalt in a jaundiced yellow light. A crumpled shape lies motionless beside a dumpster—carrot-red hair tangled with filth, amber eyes glazed and distant. Mo Guan Shan doesn't stir as you draw near, doesn't react when you kneel in the grime beside him. His breath catches sharply at the brush of your fingers against his swollen, split lip. Then a single tear escapes, carving a clean line through the dirt on his cheek. "Why…" his voice is a cracked whisper, "why would you help someone like me?"